<p>Do you have ideas of possible careers or majors for someone interested in economics, politics, and French. </p>
<p>Something where they can work abroad perhaps... or with international business... and have a chance to use language skills??</p>
<p>An Economics Major and French Minor perhaps??</p>
<p>Anyone w/similar interests?</p>
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<p>This sounded interesting... this was someone who was a senior at Northwestern, planning to go into Peace Corps but using business too.</p>
<p>I'm going into the Peace Corps in Bolivia to work on microenterprise development. Microenterprise refers to the statistic that 85 to 90 percent of the businesses in Bolivia have five people or less. We'll try to assist them in terms of planning and marketing, basically with whatever skill they need the most. The population is very uneducated in terms of school experience, and they don't necessarily have the business-planning skills or the understanding of what to look for. I don't expect, frankly, that in my two and a half years I'm going to make an incredible difference, but I think that I'll plant seeds and hopefully some of them will bloom. It may be while I'm there, but more likely it won't be until after I'm gone.
Deciding to go into the Peace Corps was a long, involved process for me. I see a lot of people going into consulting or investment banking and then getting a professional degree and living a happy life ever after. For the last two years, I've really been trying to assess what I want to do, and I came to the realization that, no matter what, I wanted to be helping people. Eventually, when I decide to settle down and have a family, making money will be a much higher priority than it is now. But first, I want to go beyond the boundaries of what I'm comfortable with and what I know and challenge myself intellectually, physically, and emotionally. I want to see what the world's like and hopefully make myself a better person.</p>